Subhatuʻl-uşşâk

Title:

Subhatuʻl-uşşâk
سبحة العشاق

Creator:

Latifî
لطيفي

Contributor:

Abdülhamid II, Sultan of the Turks, former owner

Date:

[16--?].

Description:

Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 445Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; paper, etc. suggest 17th or even very late 16th century.Former shelfmark: "427 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on verso of front flyleaf.Binding: Pasteboards faced in purple silk [?] with green straight-grain leather over spine and edges/turn-ins (textile faced, leather edged, framed binding) ; Type III binding (without flap) ; pastedowns and flyleaves in spring green surface-dyed paper ; leather edging silver-stamped with scrollwork / s-shaped motifs ; now sewn in magenta thread, six and four stations ; overall in somewhat poor condition with upper cover, flyleaves and opening leaf fully detached from remainder of text block, splitting of spine leather, minor abrasion, etc.Support: non-European (likely Persianate) laid paper with 8 laid lines per cm. (vertical, mainly pretty indistinct) and no chain lines plainly visible, quite dense and sturdy though transluscent, well-burnished, beige in color ; flyleaves in European wove paper.Decoration: Elegant illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān) at opening consisting of rectangular piece carrying empty gold cartouche flanked by swirling vegetal design (in gold, lavender, red, pink and white) on fields of light blue and gold surounded by heavy border in red and white with gold outline and surmounted by scalloped semi-circular piece (dome) carrying similar vegetal composition set into a green and gold well or frame and itself surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) in light blue ; written area surrounded by frame consisting of gold bands flanking a red band all outlined in black fillets ; section headings, keywords (author's name, etc.), and text of ḥadīth chrysographed ; a few keywords rubricated.Script: Naskh ; elegant Turkish hand ; virtually serifless with tilt to the left, many open counters, curvilinear descenders, and some elongation of horizontal strokes ; extensively vocalized (in black ink).Layout: Written mainly in 13 lines per page ; column of written area divided to two columns for text of preface/prologue, elucidation, and epilogue whereas text of headings and ḥadīth fill the column width ; frame-ruled.Collation: ii, V (10), V+1 (21), ii ; exclusively quinions ; catchwords possibly lost to trimming.Explicit: "عمر اولوب ايرنجه روزقيام سكا والكه صلوة وسلام الحمد لله على التمام والصلوة والسلام على سيدنا محمد خير الانام وعلى آله الكرام واصحابه العظام"Incipit: "ايلدي حق بزي بحمد الله قائل لا اله الا الله"Title from preface (fol.4a).Ms. codex.Fine copy of the collection of one hundred ḥadīth accompanied by paraphrase in Turkish verse by Latîfî (Abdüllatif Çelebî Kastamonulu, d.1582).

Language:

Arabic
Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928)

Type (Narrower):

Manuscripts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Manuscripts, Turkish
Manuscripts, Arabic
Hadith Criticism, interpretation, etc. Poetry.
Hadith Commentaries Early works to 1800.

Extent:

21 leaves : paper ; 197 x 122 (134 x 79) mm.

Rights:

Public Domain

Format:

Book
Manuscript/Archive
Online
Print

Same as:

https://search.lib.umich.edu/catalog/record/006814944

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